Acceptance And Commitment Therapy

ACT (typically pronounced as the word “act”) is a form of clinical behavior analysis (CBA) used in psychotherapy. It is an empirically-based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in different ways with commitment and behavior-change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility.

• Cognitive defusion: Learning methods to reduce the tendency to reify thoughts, images, emotions, and memories. • Acceptance: Allowing thoughts to come and go without struggling with them. • Contact with the present moment: Awareness of the here and now, experienced with openness, interest, and receptiveness. • Observing the self: Accessing a transcendent sense of self, a continuity of consciousness which is unchanging. • Values: Discovering what is most important to one’s true self.

Committed action: Setting goals according to values and carrying them out responsibly.

Welcome to Millennium Consulting. We are located at 88 Jervois Road, Ponsonby in Auckland. We are a group of senior psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists with a wide range of clinical experience and expertise.